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Ever since the rise of Youtube and Internet reviewing, there have been a certain small collection of bad movies that have mesmerized the public. "The Room," "Birdemic," "Fateful Findings," and so on.

And for the kids.... there's "Foodfight!"

It is difficult to even describe all the ways "Foodfight!" fails, both as cinematic art and as entertainment. The animation is dreadful. The world-building is baffling. The characters are insultingly shallow. Ethnic stereotypes abound. The plot is a confusing kiddie version of "Casablanca." Since the movie is for kids, most of the humor revolves around sex and excrement. And of course, the vital moral message is "buying generic-brand products is like supporting cannibalistic Nazis."

The story takes place in a supermarket that comes to life every night, transforming into a city filled with "ikes" that represent the various products in the store. Dex Dogtective (Charlie "Tiger Blood" Sheen), a cereal mascot, is preparing to propose to his girlfriend Sunshine Goodness (Hilary Duff)... but then she vanishes without a trace. Despairing, he gives up being a Dogtective and... opens a nightclub. No, I don't understand why.

But six months later, he's approached by the supposedly sexy Lady X (Eva Longoria), the seductive ike of the new Brand X. But when a riot leads to the sudden horrible deaths of many ikes, Dex reluctantly decides to get involved again -- and very predictably discovers that Lady X (being a sexualized woman) is evil, scheming to exterminate all ikes and take over the store. Can Dex and his chocolate squirrel friend Dan (Wayne Brady) gather the remaining ikes and stop Brand X for good? Will anyone in the audience care? Spoilers for the latter: the answer is no.

So-bad-they're-good movies are actually quite rare, because they need to be bad consistently, on multiple levels, and exhibit both complete confidence and a total lack of creative talent. So it's not surprising that a movie like "Foodfight!" is one of that rare breed. It's pretty obvious that director/producer/writer Lawrence Kasanoff wanted to make a movie like "Toy Story," but failed to realize that it was the good writing and mature storytelling that made people love that film.

And so, unsurprisingly, the movie is an incoherent maelstrom of fart jokes, excrement jokes, disgusting or disturbing sexual innuendo (Cheezel T. Weasel apparently moonlights as a pimp who sells sex dolls), wrapped around a painfully predictable plot with few twists. Literally the entire story becomes evident within the first fifteen minutes, except for the painfully shoehorned-in "Casablanca" references -- such as when the French national anthem starts playing in defiance of Brand X's stormtroopers. Very little makes sense.

And the final indignity? The essential message of the movie is that nobody should buy generic-brand products, which are typically not that different from the name-brand ones. But according to Kasanoff, they are filled with addictive, toxic substances and are morally comparable to the Nazis, and thus everyone should only buy from food corporations, which are good and noble and have nothing bad in them.

And did I mention the constant filth and sexual innuendo? Because it can't be overstated. For instance, one scene has an offensive Jewish stereotype spray Dex with mucus, while another has a character literally being flung into a sewer brimming with liquid poo. And when Dan isn't making not-so-veiled sexual remarks about women ("How about some chocolate frosting?") or being unwillingly pursued by a gay vampire, Lieutenant X is making gleefully rapey and fetishistic comments ("I love a good violation").

As for the animation, it is nothing short of torture. Due to the theft of the early footage partway through production, Kasanoff decided to reshoot the film with motion capture actors who never seem to know what they're doing. The characters sort of spasm and float through every scene, with no facial expression and cold dead eyes. In fact, the animation is so pitiful that Sunshine appears to have gone blind in some scenes, since she just stares vacantly at the ceiling during a supposedly heartfelt scene.

As for the characters, don't expect actual iconic figures to do more than have a line here or there. The real attention is given up to characters concocted in a crack lab, each as flat as a sheet of paper -- and frankly, most are pretty unlikeable (a vapid damsel, a, an oversexualized villain) -- and mostly without any kind of character development (such as an inept, childish penguin who is apparently supposed to be endearing).

It's hard to think of a worse movie for kids, or a worse animated movie -- "Foodfight!" manages to be crass, gross, inept and incompetent. Worse children's movies may exist, but probably none with more consistently terrible content.

The music/soundtrack is the only bright spot in this stinker, although the mixing and volume levels are not always right.The animation is like one of those late 90's computer SIM games. Most video games made in the last 15 years are more realistic and lifelike that this cheap software's generator.The story is ridiculous and the main characters are forgettable. The references to Nazi Germany and corporate mind control are blatant.The only characters they got right were the California raisins (which were done in the late 80's).A test of a good movie is, it's over too soon. With a bad movie, you're looking at the clock hoping it's over soon. After 30 minutes, I was fast forwarding through it and it was still too long.The funniest part is the poor animation, but you can only laugh a minute or two, then it's just sad. The jokes are bad, so bad I groaned most of the time. I can see why funding was so hard to get...nobody was stupid enough to get behind this embarrassing dumpster fire.

I think of Flander's wifes regular outbursts: "Won't somebody please think of the children'?!?I would like to add, "Won't somebody think of the brain cells being slaughtered?"Please, go outside. Watch grass grow. Talk to a neighbor. Bang your head on the ground. All these are much better alternatives to watching this spawn of Hades film. Whatever you do, if you're too brave or too dumb, DON'T LOOK INTO THE SOULESS EYES OF THESE HORRIBLE CREATURES!This film is so bad, I wouldn't event give it to a moral enemy. Have mercy, if you have a copy DESTROY IT!!!!!!

I like this as I love movies that are so bad they are good. An example is Santa Claus conquers the martians. This film was rumored to have most of its intellectual property stolen. It had to make a film to fulfill its contract.

Funny jerky animation sad suggestive dialogue. Snarky. I wouldn't let my niece who is in elementary school see. It is really bad but for me that's good.

I'm a school teacher to kids with special needs and one afternoon for lunch we were looking for a video to watch. This video was listed under kids and family. It is far from that. With so much adult humor and explicit scenes that are so inappropriate for youngsters, I quickly had to take it off. My students started to pick up on some of the scenes but thank goodness they didn't get "I'll be her chocolate cream to her nut". Hmmm definitely not kid friendly.

I only got like five minutes into this and I will never get those minutes back. The animation is horrible, the characters look like a bad video game. The audio does not sync with their mouths. There are so many flipping errors in this thing. You can tell how rushed it was and it even says in the trivia that the animators would not put this movie on their resume. If you're going to do a movie do a good one and this was a sloppy and unpleasant mess. So let me save you the trouble and don't watch it isn't worth it.

This movie is just a huge product placement that has an inconsistent plot and throws too many facts at the viewer for him/her to care. It is a good watch if you are looking to laugh at terrible movies.

We rented this movie for my son's 12th birthday based on the recommendation of another friend (who clued us in to the cheesy, low quality animation and dialogue)...and the boys at his party thought it was so low quality that it was hilarious. They watched about 90% of it, then went outside to have a water fight. It was fun to make fun of. That was all it was good for.